Final results of magnetic monopole searches with the MACRO experiment
M. Ambrosio,R. Antolini,G. Auriemma,G. Auriemma,D. Bakari,A. Baldini,G. C. Barbarino,Barry C. Barish,G. Battistoni,Yvonne Becherini,Roberto Bellotti,C. Bemporad,P. Bernardini,Halina Bilokon,C. Bloise,C. R. Bower,M. Brigida,Severino Angelo Maria Bussino,F. Cafagna,M. Calicchio,D. Campana,M. Carboni,R. Caruso,S. Cecchini,Fabrizio Cei,V. Chiarella,Tommaso Chiarusi,B. C. Choudhary,S. Coutu,S. Coutu,M. Cozzi,G. de Cataldo,H. Dekhissi,C. De Marzo,I. De Mitri,J. Derkaoui,M. De Vincenzi,A. Di Credico,O. Erriquez,C. Favuzzi,C. Forti,P. Fusco,G. Giacomelli,G. Giannini,G. Giannini,N. Giglietto,M. Giorgini,M. Grassi,A. A. Grillo,F. Guarino,C. Gustavino,Alec Habig,Kael Hanson,R.M. Heinz,E. Iarocci,E. Katsavounidis,E. Katsavounidis,Ioannis Katsavounidis,E. Kearns,Hyun-Chul Kim,S. Kyriazopoulou,Ashavani Kumar,Ashavani Kumar,E. Lamanna,E. Lamanna,C. E. Lane,D. Levin,Paolo Lipari,Np Longley,Np Longley,M. J. Longo,F. Loparco,F. Maaroufi,G. Mancarella,G. Mandrioli,Shahid Manzoor,Shahid Manzoor,Annarita Margiotta,Andrea Carlo Marini,D. Martello,A. Marzari-Chiesa,D. Matteuzzi,M. N. Mazziotta,D. G. Michael,P. Monacelli,Teresa Montaruli,Marco Monteno,S. L. Mufson,J. A. Musser,Donato Nicolo,R. Nolty,C. Orth,Giuseppe Osteria,O. Palamara,Vincenzo Patera,L. Patrizii,R. Pazzi,C. W. Peck,L. Perrone,S. Petrera,P. Pistilli,V. Popa,A. Rainò,J. Reynoldson,F.J. Ronga,A. Rrhioua,C. Satriano,C. Satriano,Eugenio Scapparone,Kate Scholberg,Kate Scholberg,A. Sciubba,P. Serra,Maximiliano Sioli,G. Sirri,Mario Sitta,Mario Sitta,P. Spinelli,M. Spinetti,Maurizio Spurio,R. Steinberg,J. L. Stone,L. R. Sulak,A. Surdo,Gregory Tarle,V. Togo,M. Vakili,C. W. Walter,R. C. Webb +128 more
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In this article, the authors present the final results obtained by the MACRO experiment in the search for GUT magnetic monopoles in the penetrating cosmic radiation, for the range 4×10 −5 <β < 1.Abstract:
We present the final results obtained by the MACRO experiment in the search for GUT magnetic monopoles in the penetrating cosmic radiation, for the range 4×10 −5 <β< 1. Several searches with all the MACRO sub-detectors (i.e. scintillation counters, limited streamer tubes and nuclear track detectors) were performed, both in stand alone and combined ways. No candidates were detected and a 90% Confidence Level (C.L.) upper limit to the local magnetic monopole flux was set at the level of 1.4 × 10 −16 cm −2 s −1 sr −1 . This result is the first experimental limit obtained in direct searches which is well below the Parkerread more
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